Gonna try to finish my first-time play through of The Last of Us (PS5) today or tomorrow so I can start on Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Xbox). Excited to jump in after the decade since Inquisition.

It’s the difference between “this story needs to be told” versus “there’s money to be made.” Ironic that one of the most incisive and fiercely anti-capitalist series in recent memory went back to the well purely to make more money.

That’s fine by me. They give people options but preserve the best resolution for OAR.

This is an instant purchase if they preserve OAR instead of cropping to 16:9.

Seems like several compromises in v1: incorrect resolution and no audio. Mac 128K is the easiest Mac to run via emulation if you want accuracy.

If you’re interested in Mac OS 7, 8, and 9, you can put those on a regular Raspberry Pi: https://github.com/jaromaz/MacintoshPi

Gonna pick up the inevitable SteelBook to add to my Tarantino 4K SteelBook set. Only a handful left now.

This is basically the last important game from Wii U not to make it to Switch, right?

He is a good actor. You don’t have to apologize for saying that.

Online gaming is a cesspit that everyone should either avoid or play with everyone perma-muted

Physical only for all systems, unless it’s a short indie game, in which case I’ll wait for a digital sale.

If Xbox and PlayStation ever try to force digital-only, I’ll probably wind down my game buying. I’ll definitely stop buying new games at full price and just wait for steep discounts for the digital versions. Meanwhile I’ll play through my unplayed physical games.

They built their own internal emulator

You mean Ivana

This is what Nintendo hardware engineers do to fill time when the Switch 2 is just a scaled-up Switch 1

Who are the people buying Despicable Me 4 on 4K

I dunno, I can pretty easily come up with reasons why events would force someone to venture out into the world. See The Lord of the Rings and also basically every JRPG from the 1990s.

In my tabletop RPG campaigns I always make it a point for my characters to have at least one living parent, and usually two. These games are always so full of haunted orphans whose villages were burned to the ground or whatever.

Most movies and TV shows are created these days with the assumption that people are on their phones at the same time. I mean actual studio notes to that effect when the plot becomes too difficult for the average person to follow when they have it on while they’re also watching TikTok.

For all the faults of the final seasons of Game of Thrones, I appreciated that this was the consistent message in the novels and show: beware powerful men and women, and those who aspire to be, because your interests are not their interests. The government formed at the end of the show was basically the least-worst option available in a feudal society.

Zombies in the George Romero tradition are basically just animated through magic. Otherwise it would be a World War Z (book) situation where the zombies would eventually just decompose entirely.

The expert who somehow knows all things science and engineering, like they’re all just basically the same. Just once I’d like to hear, “I’m an astrophysicist, not a cybersecurity expert. I don’t have the first clue where to begin hacking any computer, let alone an alien one that I’ve never seen before.”

Bonus points if the characters have to look for a different solution due to their lack of on-hand expertise in a particular area.